Tips For First Time Scrum Masters I find this part of the article interesting. Plan the demo and demo the plan If you happen to be the ScrumMaster of a team that is ushering in agile to the organization, your sprint plannings, standups, reviews, and retrospectives could garner interest and attention from many quarters. YouContinue reading “Tips For First Time Scrum Masters”
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Incrimental Agile QA
An Article on how QA. Incremental QA is highly desirable in Scrum. Scrum does not distinguish between development and QA as in waterfall model. It expects that the product feature you are working on is designed, developed and tested by the end of a sprint – One sprint does it all. This article touches onContinue reading “Incrimental Agile QA”
Seven Reasons Why Agile Works For Web User Experience
A good article on how Agile helps web usability 7 Reasons why Agile works for web user experience
Agile Working Promotes IT skills in UK
A look at how BA is promoting Agile in its IT operations Agile Working Promotes IT skills in UK
Nokia Training Using Scrum To Create A Lego City!
The Scrum LEGO City Game is about building a nice city with Lego bricks – not a new idea till here – and doing it using as much as possible what learned during the Scrum Training. To create the sense of urgency, agile42 presents the “Product Vision” as to prove to the world that itContinue reading “Nokia Training Using Scrum To Create A Lego City!”
Agile Estimation with Mike Cohn Part 2
This starts off with Planning poker
Agile Estimation with Mike Cohn
Google Conference: Agile Estimation with Mike Cohn
How To Hold The Daily Scrum
An informative article on how to hold the Daily Scrum Meeting. The Daily Scrum is simple daily routine to help the team self-organize, focus, and identify and eliminate impediments to progress. How do you conduct the Daily Scrum and how do you know if the Daily Scrum is achieving its purpose? How to hold theContinue reading “How To Hold The Daily Scrum”
Agile Practices Are Not Just About Management
I came across this article by Mike Hadlow via Twitter. I found that I could relate some of what was described in the article to my own company. It is well worth a read “Once the software gets part a certain size and age, it becomes almost un-movable and a real hindrance to the business. OftenContinue reading “Agile Practices Are Not Just About Management”
Tight Deadlines in Scrum
I have found the issue of producing a substantial piece of functionality with a tight deadline an issue with Scrum. I shall set the scene. We conducted our Quarterly planning and prioritized our work for the Quarter. A few days before the Quarter began a new piece of functionality was dropped on us from aContinue reading “Tight Deadlines in Scrum”